Religion vs. Relational Life

Acts 2:42-47, 1Cor.12-14

9/23/2003

Religion conforms and dumbs down people to a system;

relational life frees them to trust God and explore 10,000 possibilities 24/7/365/10,000.

Religion divides people by preference and perspective;

relational life celebrates the incredible diversity in God’s family.

Religion bores honest people with routine or appalls them with manipulated choreography;

relational life is as fresh as a new conversation or journey with an endearing friend.

Religion rewards image and pretense;

relational life demands honesty and reality daily to the core.

Religion provides substitutes and placebo for the active Presence of Jesus and the Presence of Jesus in His peoples’ lives; relational life focuses on that Presence alone.

Religion sacrifices people and principle for the good of the institution;

relational life teaches people how to live together as Father’s family.

Religion uses what God says and does for its own agenda;

relational life allows God to set the agenda and for us to simply follow Him.

Religion leaves us able to boast about how much we’re doing or how hard we’re working;

relational life finds joy only in celebrating God’s work among us as a Together Life.

Religion finds sacrificial love inefficient and cumbersome;

relational life embraces love as the heart of God’s working without need of reward or recognition.

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